"Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave."
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"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been"
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"For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?"
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"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms."
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"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
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"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite."
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"The best road to progress is freedom's road."
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"There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom."
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"I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain."
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"The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree."
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
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"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits."
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"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means."
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
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"How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!"
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"Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters."
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"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."
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"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
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"By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation."
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"Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved."
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